Display-card.



A. IOSEPHSON.

DISPLAY CARD.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 9, 1915.

1, 175,957. Patented Mar. 21,1916.

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ADALBERT JOSEPI-ISON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY-CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 21, 1916.

Application iiled September 9, 1915. Serial No. 49,722.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ADALBERT JosnrHsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to display cards for hair pins and like articles and its object is to provide a card to which hair pins may be attached without the use of sewing or tying or securing in any like manner. Cards of this kind have been constructed in which slits have been cut so that the hair pins pass through the same and are held to the card, but these have been arranged in such a manner that the pins dropped from the cards and were generally lost. My improved display card obviates these very undesirable features and holds the hair pins in such manner that they are entirely in viewA to the purchaser and are held to the card firmly so that their falling off from the card and becoming lost is avoided. These and other objects are accomplished by my invention, a more particular description of which will appear below.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, in which,

Figure l is a face view of my improved display card, with one of the hair pins being secured thereto to show the manner of attachment; Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of the card showing a hair pin secured thereto; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig.2,looking inthe direction of the arrows.

Throughout the various views of the drawing, similar reference characters designate similar parts.

My display card consists of a sheet of card board 1, or any other suitable material. Adjacent the upper edge of said card, I provide a series of pairs ofL parallel slits 2, these slits forming a tongue 3, which tongue passes over the upper end of a hair pin 4, or like article, as shown in the drawing. In order that the upper end of the hair pin may be forced under said tongue 3 without a tearing or mutilation of said tongue, slits 5, running parallel to the upper edge of the card, extend from the upper ends of the slits 2, and other slits 6 extend downwardly from said slits 5 and parallel to the edges of the tongue 3.

Adjacent the lower end of the card are U-shaped incisions 7, two of said incisions being needed for each hair pin, and below said incisions 7 are inverted U-shaped incisions S, two of said inverted U-shaped incisions being placed below two of the incisions 7 so that tongues 9 are formed between them, which tongues pass over the legs of a hair pin. The U-shaped incisions allow the legs of the pin to be inserted under the tongues 9 without tearing or mutilating said tongues.

From the foregoing, my improved display card will be readily understood. The upper part of the hair pin is held firmly against movement by the tongue 3, the legs being held by the tongues 9, the entire hair pin being in view on the card.

From the foregoing, it is obvious that my invention is not restricted to the specific embodiment herein shown and described, but is broad enough to cover all structures coming within the scope of the annexed. claim.

Having described my invention, what 'I claim is:

An article of the class described comprising a card, a pair of parallel slits adjacent one edge of said card, forming a tongue between them, a slit extending from the end of each of said slits and parallel to the edge of the card and slits extending downward from said last mentioned slits; a pair of parallel U-shaped slits adjacent the opposite edge of the card, a pair of inverted U-shaped slits below said U-shaped slits and tongues formed by said slits extending over the legs of the hair pin.

Signed at the city, county and State of New York, this 7th day of September, 1915.

ADALBERT JOSEPHSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

